Mixer.



PATENTED00112,1906.

MIXER. APPLIUATION FILED FBB.10,1906.

P. M. LYoNs,

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. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Get, 2, 1906.

Application filed February 10. 1906. Serial No. 300,462.

To @ZZ 11j/wm, t may concern:

Be it known that l, Pnncr M. LYoNs, a citizen ofthe United States, and aresident of Gueydan, .in the parish of Yerinilion and State ofLouisiana, have invented a new and Improved Mixer, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of' the invention is to provide a new and improved mixer,more especially designed. for mixing or blending 'dil'lerent grades ofrice and other cereals in a i ery simple and eilective manner andwithout the use of power-driven expensive machinery.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations ofthe same, which will be more fully described hereinafter and thenpointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this speciication, in whichsimilar characters of reference indicatecorrespending parts in both theviews.

Figure l is a sectional side elevation of the improvement, and Fig. 2 isa transverse section of thc same on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

A plurality of feed-hoppers A, A', and A2 forl containing the diiierentgrades of rice or other materials are provided in their lower ends withgates B under the control yol' the operator for regulating the amount olthe material iiowing from any one of the hoppers A, A', or A2 into areceiving-hopper C, provided at its bottom with an outlet D fordischarging the materials into a mixing-chamber E, havingtransversely-extending .spaced bars F, forming passages for thematerials to insure intimate mixing thereof, as hereinafter more fullyexplained.

The' mixing-chamber E is referably in the t"l rm of alozenge, as plain yillustrated in F Ag. l', and the bars F are triangular in crosssectionand confined within a lozeng'e-shaped 'ligure the sides of,which arespaced from the side walls ot the mixing-chamber E, as will be readilyunderstood `py'reference to Fig. 1.

In ther outlet D of the receiving-hopper C is arranged amanually-controlled gate Gr for controlling the low of the materialsinto the mixing-chamber E and Ato the bars F thereof, and the lower endof the said outlet D is provided with downwardly and outwardly extendinglanges D', arranged parallel to the upper sides of the lozenge-shapedfigure containing the bars F. The lower end of Vthe mixing-chamber E isvprovided with an outletspout H foi-'directing the mixed and'bendedtrolling SttlllO.

sides of which are spa "ved from the side walls materials into a bag lor other suitable receptaele.l

-By reference to Fig. l it will be seen that the uppermost bars F extendinto the lower end of the outlet D, and thc top bar F is directly underthe bottom ol' the gate G, so that the materials flowing down thereceivingliopper C and its outlet D pass onto the bars F, which arespaced sulliciently lar apart to form' passages for the materials-thatis, to allow the materials to [low downward and dcilcet the samesidcwisc, to insure a proper mixture of the dillerent grades ofmaterials, with a view to thorougl'ily mix or blend the As shown in Fig.l, the bars F arc arranged in horizontal rows, and the bars in one rowalternate with the bars inthe next row above or below, so thatsullicient space formed between two bars in one row and the bar above inthe next adjacent row to allow the i'naterials to converge towardv eachother, and thereby insure intiinaternixture or blending of the same.

As the several devices described are. located one above the other, it isevident that the materials llow by their own gravity in a downwarddirection, and hence no powerdriven or expensive machinery is requiredfor producing the desired result.

The mixer is very simple and durable in construction and is composed ofconiparatively few parts not liable to get easily out ot order.

lt is understood that by the use of the gates B in the severalfeed-lumpers A, A', and A2 more or less of any one of the materials inthe hoppers can be discharged into the receiving-hopper C, according tothe desired grade oil the mixture to be obtained.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent-- l 1. A mixer comprising a plurality 'of feedhoppers,a receiving-hopper into which discharge the "teed-hoppers, amixing-chamber into which discharges the receivingehopper, the saidmixing-chamber having spaced bars forming passages for the material tobe mixed, and an outlet at the Jottorr thereof,l the side walls of themixing-chamber being in the form ot a loZenge-shaped figure, and thesaid bars being triangular in cross-section and confined in aiozenge-shaped figure, the

of the vsaid mixing-chamber, means for conthe flow of the material rromthe (i OO IOO feed-hoppers into the receiving-ho per, and means forcontrolling the flow o matelrial from the receiving-hopper into themixingchamber.

f 2. A mixer Compris-ng a plurality of feed hoppers, .areceiving-l'iopper into which discharge the said feed-hoppers, amixing-chamher into which discharges the said receivinghopper, the saidmixing-chamber, having spar-ed oars forming passages for the material'to he mixed, and an outlet at the bottom of the said mixirig-chamber,the side walls of which are in the form of a lozenge-shaped figure, andthe said hars being triangular in cross-section and conined'within alozengeshaped figure, the sides of which are spaced from theside wallsof the said mixing-chamber.

3. A mixer comprising a plurality of feedhoppers, a receiving-hopperinto which discharge the saidlfeed-h'oppers, a miXing-chamher into whichdischarges the said receivinghopperv1 the said mixing-chamber havinspaced bars forming passages for the materia to he mixed, and an outletat the bottom of the said mixing-chamber, the sidewalls of which are inthe form of a lozenge-shaped figure, and the said hars being` trian ularin cross-section and confined within a ozengesesso@ shaped figure, thesides of which are spaced 3o charge the said feed-hoppers, amixing-chamber into which discharges the said receivinghopper, the saidmixing-chamber havin spaced bars forming assages for the materia to `hemixed, an out et at the bottom of the said mixing-chamber, the sidewalls of which are in the form of a lozenge-shaped figure, and the saidbars being triangularfin crosssection and confined within alozenge-shaped figure, the sides of which are spaced from the side wallsof the said mixin -chamber, the outlet of the said receiving-e amberhaving angular flanges parallel to the upper sides of the saidlozenge-shaped figure, and a ate in the outlet of the saidreceiving-cham er.

In testimony whereof l have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subseribingwitnesses.

PERCY M. LYONS. Witnesses H. C. BERT,

D. B. WIGGINS.

hoppers, a receivmg-hopper into which dis-

